**Official** New Zealand in England

[NZTailender]

All the Kiwi CW posters starting a riot.

So the pitch flattens and we finally see O Brien, Martin, Mills for the kind of bowlers they are ------> Fill in the adjectives.

It's not like Broad and Anderson are world class batsmen here. Can somebody produce ONE good unplayable delivery and get one of them out please? And CATCH! .

This is mildly amusing if both of these batsmen are playing their shots with all hell abandon to advance the game...

This is getting close to embarassing for the Black Caps.

You're the epitome of dire New Zealand supporters.

Edit: not just solely because of this post, but because of quite a few others.

 

[GIMH]

Broad to ton up tbh

 

[Goughy]

This innings by England really does further illustrate the importance of depth in batting (as if any more was needed) and its role as plan b) to recover from a loss of early wickets.

Just wish we could find someone that could bowl a bit to bat at 8

 

[99*]

 

[GIMH]

How about that Freddie bloke?

 

[Scaly piscine]

How about that Freddie bloke?

Yep. Get rid of Panesar.

 

[GIMH]

Is Broad suffering the nervous 40s here or what??? Seems to have been on 49 for about 6 hours

 

[_Ed_]

Yep. Get rid of Panesar.

After he won the last Test for you?

 

[_Ed_]

Is Broad suffering the nervous 40s here or what??? Seems to have been on 49 for about 6 hours

Yeah, he was on 49 when I left work. Still is when I get home.

 

[Richard]

Not sure whether or not you're familiar with SW\BLE. He's a recurring nuscience who repeatedly duplicate-accounts. I was just hoping that your near-posting-ID-sake 204* wasn't him.

And WTF just happened to the site?

Did the site go down for a while?

There's been another database error - the problems still haven't been ascertained, so this will continue to happen.

 

[TT Boy]

All the Kiwi CW posters starting a riot.

So the pitch flattens and we finally see O Brien, Martin, Mills for the kind of bowlers they are ------> Fill in the adjectives.

Wouldn’t say the pitch has flattened out, Broad and Anderson played a miss numerous times this morning and the likes of Kyle Mills were still getting the ball to do something, only problem for New Zealand is that their bowlers were not consistently bowling in the right areas.

England have got a top total for mine, especially considering they were on the brink of being rolled out for nothing.

 

[GIMH]

sledger has now had two

(in resposnse to Richard, not TT Boy)

 

[steds]

Nah. Jimmy's just in his rightful place.

Ind33d

 

[Richard]

Or maybe they're just scoring valuable runs regardless of what rate they're scoring them at. And Broad is clearly not just a tail-ender.

How valuable they end-up being will be seen at the end of the game. Obviously Broad isn't a tail-ender, but he's not a front-line batsman and seeing non-frontline-batsmen stay at the crease for long periods is something I find very dreary, unless the game is already in a critically-close scenario.

 

[Richard]

Is Broad suffering the nervous 40s here or what??? Seems to have been on 49 for about 6 hours

I can't recall ever seeing anyone on 49* for so long, and it'll now be another 40 minutes of it.

 

[GIMH]

At the end of the day, runs are runs regardless of who scores them. The fact that Anderson, arguably the second worst batsman in international cricket, outscored four of our top six is a little worrying though.

 

[99*]

Good lord, still on 49*.

Any chance we could fly/drive Bond to the ground and either shave his head (replace Martin) or cut off some of Marshall's hair and replace Mills?

 

[Richard]

At the end of the day, runs are runs regardless of who scores them. The fact that Anderson, arguably the second worst batsman in international cricket, outscored four of our top six is a little worrying though.

Anderson's a better batsman than MSP for mine. Obviously, runs are runs - but as I say, I enjoy watching batsmen, not tailenders\lower-order-players, score them. I find it boring to see tailenders staying at the crease for an age.

 

[steds]

Anderson, arguably the second worst batsman in international cricket

No chance.

 

[Scaly piscine]

After he won the last Test for you?

Absolute rubbish. Strauss won the game. Panesar bowled, fielded and batted badly for most of the game before he strung some decent overs together and NZ proceeded to play them like headless chickens.